Alert archive / Montana / Yellowstone County

Weather alerts in Yellowstone County, Montana, 2012

74 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Yellowstone County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
74
Warnings
23
Watches
18
Advisories
0
Busiest month
July23 alerts
Busiest day
June 2, 20125 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Yellowstone County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings3167%333%22 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Billings, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings291645%3855%21 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 18, 1:44 PM MSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Feb 22, 2:24 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ36 min
Mar 12, 3:59 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ32 hr
Mar 14, 3:08 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ25 hr
Mar 15, 3:58 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ4 days
Mar 19, 1:57 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Mar 26, 6:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ57 min
Mar 26, 6:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ70 min
Mar 29, 4:49 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ22 hr
Mar 30, 3:18 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ65 hr
Apr 3, 2:52 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ12 hr
Apr 3, 2:26 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ30 hr
Apr 23, 6:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ59 min
May 29, 4:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ46 min
Jun 2, 9:22 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Jun 2, 12:52 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Jun 2, 2:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 2, 4:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ62 min
Jun 2, 4:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ52 min
Jun 2, 6:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jun 3, 1:42 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 4, 4:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 5, 12:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 24, 2:42 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ13 hr
Jun 25, 3:35 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ44 hr
Jun 29, 2:54 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ60 hr
Jul 1, 4:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jul 1, 5:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 1, 7:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 2, 5:02 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ10 hr
Jul 2, 2:34 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ33 hr
Jul 9, 3:35 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ12 hr
Jul 9, 3:46 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ32 hr
Jul 10, 2:37 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ30 hr
Jul 10, 9:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ48 min
Jul 10, 9:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ43 min
Jul 10, 10:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ53 min
Jul 11, 12:43 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Jul 11, 5:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ65 min
Jul 17, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ45 min
Jul 22, 3:42 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ24 hr
Jul 23, 1:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jul 26, 7:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ53 min
Jul 26, 7:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ55 min
Jul 27, 2:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jul 27, 4:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ45 min
Jul 28, 2:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Jul 29, 5:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ55 min
Jul 31, 3:19 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ49 hr
Jul 31, 7:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ52 min
Aug 1, 3:03 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ41 hr
Aug 5, 3:35 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ12 hr
Aug 6, 3:55 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ17 hr
Aug 6, 3:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ49 min
Aug 6, 4:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ63 min
Aug 6, 9:03 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ24 hr
Aug 10, 4:10 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ17 hr
Aug 10, 5:37 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ68 min
Aug 13, 3:47 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ11 hr
Aug 13, 3:10 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ30 hr
Aug 22, 2:55 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ19 hr
Aug 23, 9:36 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ38 hr
Aug 26, 4:24 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ48 hr
Aug 28, 4:05 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ43 hr
Aug 30, 3:37 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ5 hr
Aug 30, 8:49 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ3 days
Sep 3, 4:56 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ40 hr
Sep 6, 3:49 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ22 hr
Sep 7, 2:06 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ4 days
Sep 30, 4:07 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ30 hr
Oct 1, 9:39 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ34 hr
Oct 20, 5:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ60 min
Oct 23, 8:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ58 min
Nov 21, 3:41 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ49 min

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.